A whole institute dedicated to starting every sentence with the word "actually" and telling everyone else why they are wrong.
No doubt they'll get 60 second vignettes on Mythbusters and Cosmos called "Why we are Right" hosted by some smug, bearded fuck behind a dungeon master screen.
Therefore every asshole on this site will shout you down no matter what you actually wrote in the article. They don't even know why they hate Flash. They just join in because it's the latest "I are programmer" meme. (The last programmer to attempt to post anything useful on this site left ten years ago)
Never mind that Flash has been responsible for tens of billions of dollars in economic value.
Never mind that from 1993 to date, Flash is the only technology that has provided attractive animation and video on the web.
Never mind that the loudest and most obnoxious anti-Flash assholes have had TWENTY ONE YEARS to come up with a viable alternative, and so far they've produced nothing but bullshit-coated bullshit.
Never mind that in 2014, we STILL don't have decent HTML5 authoring tools. Oh sure, it's built in to tools that output everything else + HTML5, but HTML5 itself? Nope. Nothing even remotely close to Flash CS6.
Never mind that in 2014 HTML5 still doesn't have decent synchronized sound support.
Never mind that the way problems like this used to get solved would be that web developers (Andressen, Joy, Davis, Clark, Yang) would get together and solve them. Now people just bitch, wipe their ass on the tablecloth, bitch some more and go back to their bong.
Awww, you can't mod it down. Guess you'll have to grow up and face the facts. Lazy, illiterate, talentless, worthless ASSHOLES are all that's left in this hate-machine cult. Go back to your fucking LoL Twitch feeds.
Telling the truth on Slashdot will turn "excellent" karma to "terrible" in less than a day.
Slashdot, Reddit, Boingboing, essentially the whole atheist marketing machine is a groupthink mechanism that enforces and promotes hatred automatically. Cory Doctorow in particular is a hate-spitting bigot.
They can't mod me down any more. And having been on Slashdot now for oh, 13 years I really don't give a fuck.
People who mod others down are usually insecure pussies.
Atheism is a fundamentalist religion no different than the "fundies" they claim to oppose.
These people are not interested in reason. They are not interested in evidence. They are not interested in anything that promotes what they hate.
Atheism is a hate group, a hate movement and is filled with people whose primary reaction to something they don't understand is to hate it first and try to defeat it.
Now they would mod this down, but they can't, because Slashdot already does that for them (because Slashdot is a machine that enforces groupthink better than ANY religion EVER has)
But they want to mod it down, because that's how you "win" on the Internet. You smear shit all over the things you disagree with, kind of like the apes would. You know, the animals we are descended from?
This method of "winning" appeals to small-minded, dogmatic reactionaries like the atheist's heroes. People like Sam Harris (the man who never smiles) and Neil Degrasse Tyson, who actually believes he can even carry Carl Sagan's asstowel.
It's a pussified, cowardly way to promote an agenda, but nobody ever said atheism required courage. Atheism is a convenient way to avoid responsibility: something that appeals to a young (fat, neckbearded, arrogant, jackass, unemployed, "scientific") man in 2014 in much the same way that drugs, irresponsible sex, laziness and being an asshole on the Internet do.
You are fundamentalists. Just like the banjo-picking Christians you claim to oppose. You believe in "sky daddy" like they believe the Earth was created before the sun. You deserve each other.
People with real intelligence, education and an understanding of science and its place in human academics take both of you about as seriously as the other: which is to say not very.
Have one person or a small group decide which posts are good or bad?
That's exactly what's happening now.
Based on this post it seems likely to me that you can't express a point effectively and rather than resolve that you've decided it must be the fault of other people that you get down-modded.
It is by definition the fault of other people that I get down-modded. My university degree and the 22 books I've written are conclusive proof that I can express myself just fine.
I'm simply commenting on the hypocrisy of Slashdot bleating about others being silenced online while they maintain this complex mechanism which effectively silences commenters.
Tell the truth. You're forming a little intellectual enclave of like-minded people so you can all congratulate each other in a hermetically sealed echo chamber.
You're not interested in discussing ideas. You're interested in strengthening your dogmas. You are anti-intellectual fundamentalists, no different than those you claim to oppose.
And the longer it festers, the more sour and bitter and reactionary you all get. Slashdot is scarcely a shadow of what it once was. If this continues, it will be a ghost town in a year, just like Boingboing is, and just like Reddit will eventually become.
Always funny how Slashdot uses the "silenced person" icon.
Meanwhile, they have a site where the "anonymous coward" can log in to a duplicate account and mod posts down against a commenter they don't agree with until that commenter is literally slienced beyond one or two pre-modded -1 comments a day.
The downvotes are fairly predictable: anyone who doesn't toe the scientism line or who doesn't agree with the fundamentalist atheist dogma is usually first to be mass downvoted. Often a simple declarative sentence is all it takes to rile up some greasy neckbeard asshole, who will dump all five mod points into retaliating because greasy neckbeard assholes take declarative statements as a personal insult.
If you reply, that just gives their duplicate account another three-point shot at your "karma," which is simply a measure of how well you agree with the Slashdot party line. All the greasy neckbeard asshole wants is grist for his logic mill so he can "disprove" everything you say by downvoting it and labeling it.
So essentially, Slashdot is simply a machine to enforce groupthink. Nobody is allowed to color outside the lines without being chased away by the downvotes. It's very much like Boingboing, which is a site devoted to enforcing Cory Doctorow's personal prejudices and cowardly bigotry through his proxy mods.
I propose this be fixed before you spend any more time on your big beta project.
tl;dr Slashdot's moderation system does nothing but force commenters to say the "right thing(tm)"
Some Important Person(tm) will emerge and recite a plausible explanation. A group of thundering assholes will then encircle the explanation on sites like this one and declare it "the way it is."
At that point all discussion will be over, and anyone who continues to study the incident, come to any other conclusion, offer any contradictory evidence or otherwise belabor the issue will be labeled a wacko and derided, harassed, shouted down and made fun of forever and ever amen.
You see, in America, critical thinking is prized right up to the point where an important person(tm) speaks. All subsequent critical thinking is conspiracy nut batshit tinfoil hat wearing wacko pluck-your-banjo-with-your-single-tooth teabagger loony.
The funny part is that in every single criminal prosecution in this country, every single prosecutor begins by forming what the thundering assholes would call a "conspiracy theory."
The Senate amendment replaced the entire bill. That's not an amendment. That's a senate bill with an inaccurate title.
Further, the House did not pass HR 3590 as it was passed by the Senate, which makes the entire conversation academic. If the House didn't pass the bill, there was nothing to amend.
You are using light and mirrors to try and prove your point.
I'm not trying to prove anything. You are attempting to fit a transcendent concept into your limited understanding and failing at it, then blaming the universe for your own limitations.
There are some things you cannot understand, in much the same way a muskrat can't understand the New Jersey insurance code. That doesn't mean the New Jersey insurance code doesn't exist.
Are all men created equal? Scientifically speaking? No. In the eyes of the law? Yes. So here we have a question that has true answers of both yes and no.
It has nothing to do with magic and fairy dust. It has to do with your point of view.
If you think human understanding is the limit of reality, you are not only ignorant but stupid as well.
The only problem with your theory is that HR 3590 was stripped in its entirety and replaced by a bill authored in the Senate.
Therefore the ACA did not fulfill the requirements of the Origination Clause. The Senate may concur with amendments as with other bills. They may not substitute their own.
Yes, God can create a rock He cannot lift. God can create a rock he can simultaneously not lift and lift. God can be omnipotent and powerless at the same time. God can be in two places at once. God can understand women. God can order a Big Mac that looks just like the one on the menu.
Slashdot Mirror
A whole institute dedicated to starting every sentence with the word "actually" and telling everyone else why they are wrong.
No doubt they'll get 60 second vignettes on Mythbusters and Cosmos called "Why we are Right" hosted by some smug, bearded fuck behind a dungeon master screen.
Should get Slashdot properly lathered up.
Therefore every asshole on this site will shout you down no matter what you actually wrote in the article. They don't even know why they hate Flash. They just join in because it's the latest "I are programmer" meme. (The last programmer to attempt to post anything useful on this site left ten years ago)
Never mind that Flash has been responsible for tens of billions of dollars in economic value.
Never mind that from 1993 to date, Flash is the only technology that has provided attractive animation and video on the web.
Never mind that the loudest and most obnoxious anti-Flash assholes have had TWENTY ONE YEARS to come up with a viable alternative, and so far they've produced nothing but bullshit-coated bullshit.
Never mind that in 2014, we STILL don't have decent HTML5 authoring tools. Oh sure, it's built in to tools that output everything else + HTML5, but HTML5 itself? Nope. Nothing even remotely close to Flash CS6.
Never mind that in 2014 HTML5 still doesn't have decent synchronized sound support.
Never mind that the way problems like this used to get solved would be that web developers (Andressen, Joy, Davis, Clark, Yang) would get together and solve them. Now people just bitch, wipe their ass on the tablecloth, bitch some more and go back to their bong.
Awww, you can't mod it down. Guess you'll have to grow up and face the facts. Lazy, illiterate, talentless, worthless ASSHOLES are all that's left in this hate-machine cult. Go back to your fucking LoL Twitch feeds.
I can't be fired because firing me requires my approval.
I can't be replaced because I write fiction for a living. In English. I can write up to 12,000 words a day.
I don't give a fuck how brilliant my would-be Chinese replacement is, he cannot ever replicate my skills. Period.
So the upper crust's plan to have people like myself waste our educations in a bullshit cubicle job have failed utterly. Big fuckin smile now.
Oh, and Slashdot is a groupthink cult for hate-mongering bigots. Just an automated version of Boingboing.
Telling the truth on Slashdot will turn "excellent" karma to "terrible" in less than a day.
Slashdot, Reddit, Boingboing, essentially the whole atheist marketing machine is a groupthink mechanism that enforces and promotes hatred automatically. Cory Doctorow in particular is a hate-spitting bigot.
They can't mod me down any more. And having been on Slashdot now for oh, 13 years I really don't give a fuck.
People who mod others down are usually insecure pussies.
Atheism is a fundamentalist religion no different than the "fundies" they claim to oppose.
These people are not interested in reason. They are not interested in evidence. They are not interested in anything that promotes what they hate.
Atheism is a hate group, a hate movement and is filled with people whose primary reaction to something they don't understand is to hate it first and try to defeat it.
Now they would mod this down, but they can't, because Slashdot already does that for them (because Slashdot is a machine that enforces groupthink better than ANY religion EVER has)
But they want to mod it down, because that's how you "win" on the Internet. You smear shit all over the things you disagree with, kind of like the apes would. You know, the animals we are descended from?
This method of "winning" appeals to small-minded, dogmatic reactionaries like the atheist's heroes. People like Sam Harris (the man who never smiles) and Neil Degrasse Tyson, who actually believes he can even carry Carl Sagan's asstowel.
It's a pussified, cowardly way to promote an agenda, but nobody ever said atheism required courage. Atheism is a convenient way to avoid responsibility: something that appeals to a young (fat, neckbearded, arrogant, jackass, unemployed, "scientific") man in 2014 in much the same way that drugs, irresponsible sex, laziness and being an asshole on the Internet do.
You are fundamentalists. Just like the banjo-picking Christians you claim to oppose. You believe in "sky daddy" like they believe the Earth was created before the sun. You deserve each other.
People with real intelligence, education and an understanding of science and its place in human academics take both of you about as seriously as the other: which is to say not very.
Have one person or a small group decide which posts are good or bad?
That's exactly what's happening now.
Based on this post it seems likely to me that you can't express a point effectively and rather than resolve that you've decided it must be the fault of other people that you get down-modded.
It is by definition the fault of other people that I get down-modded. My university degree and the 22 books I've written are conclusive proof that I can express myself just fine.
I'm simply commenting on the hypocrisy of Slashdot bleating about others being silenced online while they maintain this complex mechanism which effectively silences commenters.
If you weren't pulling muscles trying to be a gigantic dick, you would realize you're replying to comments that nobody made.
And I think I speak for a number of people when I say we really don't want to know about your "special handshake."
Tell the truth. You're forming a little intellectual enclave of like-minded people so you can all congratulate each other in a hermetically sealed echo chamber.
You're not interested in discussing ideas. You're interested in strengthening your dogmas. You are anti-intellectual fundamentalists, no different than those you claim to oppose.
And the longer it festers, the more sour and bitter and reactionary you all get. Slashdot is scarcely a shadow of what it once was. If this continues, it will be a ghost town in a year, just like Boingboing is, and just like Reddit will eventually become.
Always funny how Slashdot uses the "silenced person" icon.
Meanwhile, they have a site where the "anonymous coward" can log in to a duplicate account and mod posts down against a commenter they don't agree with until that commenter is literally slienced beyond one or two pre-modded -1 comments a day.
The downvotes are fairly predictable: anyone who doesn't toe the scientism line or who doesn't agree with the fundamentalist atheist dogma is usually first to be mass downvoted. Often a simple declarative sentence is all it takes to rile up some greasy neckbeard asshole, who will dump all five mod points into retaliating because greasy neckbeard assholes take declarative statements as a personal insult.
If you reply, that just gives their duplicate account another three-point shot at your "karma," which is simply a measure of how well you agree with the Slashdot party line. All the greasy neckbeard asshole wants is grist for his logic mill so he can "disprove" everything you say by downvoting it and labeling it.
So essentially, Slashdot is simply a machine to enforce groupthink. Nobody is allowed to color outside the lines without being chased away by the downvotes. It's very much like Boingboing, which is a site devoted to enforcing Cory Doctorow's personal prejudices and cowardly bigotry through his proxy mods.
I propose this be fixed before you spend any more time on your big beta project.
tl;dr Slashdot's moderation system does nothing but force commenters to say the "right thing(tm)"
I'm sorry* you misspell three-letter words.
*Nah, I'm not really sorry.
If words were people, the word "debunked" would be shoved into a barrel of nitro-glycerin and thrown off a cliff before breakfast.
The word "creepy" would be found in an artillery impact crater nearby.
You see kids, the internal combustion engine is the absolute pinnacle of automobile power technology.
So put away your chemistry sets and your CAD applications. There's nowhere to go from here.
Some Important Person(tm) will emerge and recite a plausible explanation. A group of thundering assholes will then encircle the explanation on sites like this one and declare it "the way it is."
At that point all discussion will be over, and anyone who continues to study the incident, come to any other conclusion, offer any contradictory evidence or otherwise belabor the issue will be labeled a wacko and derided, harassed, shouted down and made fun of forever and ever amen.
You see, in America, critical thinking is prized right up to the point where an important person(tm) speaks. All subsequent critical thinking is conspiracy nut batshit tinfoil hat wearing wacko pluck-your-banjo-with-your-single-tooth teabagger loony.
The funny part is that in every single criminal prosecution in this country, every single prosecutor begins by forming what the thundering assholes would call a "conspiracy theory."
What's the average price of a book
The number that makes your example add up in your favor.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/...
The book borrowing feature alone is worth it twice over.
The Senate amendment replaced the entire bill. That's not an amendment. That's a senate bill with an inaccurate title.
Further, the House did not pass HR 3590 as it was passed by the Senate, which makes the entire conversation academic. If the House didn't pass the bill, there was nothing to amend.
You are using light and mirrors to try and prove your point.
I'm not trying to prove anything. You are attempting to fit a transcendent concept into your limited understanding and failing at it, then blaming the universe for your own limitations.
There are some things you cannot understand, in much the same way a muskrat can't understand the New Jersey insurance code. That doesn't mean the New Jersey insurance code doesn't exist.
Do you believe all men are created equal?
If so, you aren't being scientific.
If not, you aren't being American.
Are all men created equal? Scientifically speaking? No. In the eyes of the law? Yes. So here we have a question that has true answers of both yes and no.
It has nothing to do with magic and fairy dust. It has to do with your point of view.
If you think human understanding is the limit of reality, you are not only ignorant but stupid as well.
The only problem with your theory is that HR 3590 was stripped in its entirety and replaced by a bill authored in the Senate.
Therefore the ACA did not fulfill the requirements of the Origination Clause. The Senate may concur with amendments as with other bills. They may not substitute their own.
The ACA is unconstitutional and must be repealed.
They're programmers. They'll get fired anyway. This is America.
Yes, God can create a rock He cannot lift. God can create a rock he can simultaneously not lift and lift. God can be omnipotent and powerless at the same time. God can be in two places at once. God can understand women. God can order a Big Mac that looks just like the one on the menu.
Stop being so linear.
In other news, Kickstarter is now submerged in billionaire cash and has been well and truly been co-opted by the establishment.
One thing we know about capitalism: it makes capital scarce, and keeps it that way.
Good idea tries to get low-cost hardware and a good educational platform OS into the hands of poor people.
Big American corporation comes along and drowns idea in a bathtub.
Big American corporation offers touch-screen television remote controls (which they call "smart" phones) as a replacement.
Everyone cheers.
The end.
There are times when I sincerely believe we, as a nation, don't deserve the Constitution we were given.